Quotes About Community

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?

I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.

That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel as if you have a place in the world.

I want to come across as an average guy, talking to his neighbor.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government.

When I went to high school, my whole neighborhood, they followed me. They wanted to see me be successful.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

I would tell little Zavion Davenport that it doesn't matter where you're from and how you grew up, the neighborhood you grew up in.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.